Francis Evdokimov

Contents page production journal

1) When producing my contents page, I decided to create it over two pages. This way I would have more space to include feature articles, pages and their numbers and the editor’s letter. These follow conventions which would be seen in typical music magazines. I have used the logo to the top right to make it a continuous scheme throughout the paper and give it that professional look. ‘Contents page’ is written in the same text as my mast head ‘Snickles’ to once more give the magazine a professional look. The small text towards the left of the first page, uses the same text as the features articles on the front cover to keep a continuous theme. Once more I have used

the green and burgundy house colour scheme for my rectangle tool to cover the text. This keeps the ‘Green issue’ in exercise. The image to the centre of the left page is taken from the internet which I wanted to give a brief introduction to the group and create hype. When researching other music magazines in the same genre, I have used similar conventions such as ‘Group index’ as seen in the burgundy box. This would give the audience insight towards a wide variation of groups they can expect.

2) The next steps I took were changing the colour of the rectangle boxes from green to grey and burgundy to green using the paint bucket tool. This tool allowed me to make the page a bit less intimidating as before the colours were too dark and did not clearly represent the genre of my magazine. I have added text using the text too apply ‘14th December 2014’ which follows media magazine conventions and allows the audience as in the front cover to know which issue they are purchasing. Another image has been added to the contents page, swapped for the previous as seen. This was done in order for the image to fit better with the colours unlike the previous which hadn’t really worked. Underneath the image I have added the feature articles

introduction, giving the audience an insight to what they should expect and see in this month issue. The ‘Group index’ has also been completed which once more follows the conventions which would be seen in the same genre music magazines. The text colour tool was used to make the text of the ‘Group Index’ white and black. This way the groups where easy to the eye to separate, unlike if it was one colour, the text would look as if it were a paragraph of text and too compact. The adjective ‘exclusive’ creates a one off, limited and gives the audience a feeling of privilege.